Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction -- I. Modal interpretation -- Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese -- 'Modal uses' of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison -- Modal non-finite relatives in Romance -- Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis -- Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures -- II. Mood selection and mood alternation -- Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese -- On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance -- Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system -- Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French -- Backmatter